$2,164.89 for a large piece of brick

Ryan pur­chased a Mac­book Pro for about $2,164.89. But when he got home, he found that inside is noth­ing but just a brick (wow! an iBrick) packed nicely with bub­ble wrap instead of Mac­book Pro. Poor Ryan, I hope he would make a good use of it.

In what’s pos­si­bly the mean­est anti-Apple pun ever, Con­sumerist reader Ryan was sold an actual brick in a box instead of the Mac­Book Pro for which he paid over $2,000.

He pur­chased the “Mac­Book Pro” at a Best Buy in Texas, and the retailer is cit­ing the prob­lem as Apple’s respon­si­bil­ity rather than its own. The box was appar­ently sealed with the brick (a paving stone, really, but I’ve already eked two jokes out of call­ing it a brick and I refuse to let that kind of thing pass me by) inside, which does seem like it would be a bizarre screwup on Apple’s end. Ryan hasn’t got­ten the mess sorted out with his credit card com­pany, Best Buy, or Apple, but this is so ridicu­lous somebody’s bound to refund his money. [Con­sumerist]

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